Alex Shepherd

Voiced by: Brian Bloom

Abusive Parents: Of the Emotional Abuse variety, and it's made abundantly clear. Just looking around the Shepherd family home, all of the little details are really chilling when they sink in — like the fact that every single photo displays one or both parents and Josh, but Alex is never to be seen in any of them. And the revelation as to why they treated him this way just makes it worse. If planning to make your own son into a Human Sacrifice before he's even conceived isn't abusive, what is?!

Badass: At least Gameplay-wise. Alex fights off a mix of murderous humans and monsters after getting mortally wounded.

Justified if he really was a soldier, although it's rather unlikely that he was.

Word Of God mentions that Alex was trained by his dad.

Big Brother Instinct: No matter what happened between the family, it's clear that Alex loved his little brother and made an effort to spend time with him.

Determinator: Fighting dozens of horrifying monsters, seeing the gruesome deaths of Mayor Bartlett, Dr. Fitch, his mother and his father and the general horror that is Silent Hill didn't stop him from trying to bring Josh back. Unfortunately, said brother was Dead All Along.

Kick the Son of a Bitch: Both of his parents are doomed before Alex arrives. When his mother is trapped in a death machine, he can choose to give her a Mercy Kill... or just let it tear her apart. Likewise, he can refuse to forgive his father for all the things he did to Alex before the old man is slaughtered. Given the awful things they did to him through his life, it's hard not to cheer him on, or at least sympathise, when he takes the "let them suffer" decision.

Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Twice over, and both times played for serious horror. Firstly, when they were kids, he accidentally knocked his brother out of the canoe whilst they were boating together, and Josh wound up drowning. Then, because his parents were too emotionally distraught over losing one son to sacrifice him, the ritual was broken and Silent Hill could invade Shepherd's Glen.

Elle Holloway

Neutral Female: Due to the particulars of gameplay, the only thing Elle will help with is lifting gates. Alex can be swarmed by cultists, and she will just stand by.

The Not-Love Interest: She and Alex are clearly close, and it seems like there may be something else between them. Elle seems to be the most overt about it though, mostly in her theme song, and Alex never gives any implication that he feels that way.

Joshua "Josh" Shepherd

Voiced by: Dalton O'Dell

Creepy Child: Alex keeps seeing Josh in various levels, and he doesn't exactly look happy to be there. Also the fact that, like Alessa from the first game, he has an affection for bugs and spiders, which can be creepy in and of itself. Of course, the "creepy" Josh seen throughout the game is an apparition. The real Josh seemed like a fairly regular kid.

Judge Margaret Holloway

Distressed Damsel: Alex has to save her from Asphyxia. Although it may have been best if he'd left her there...

Faux Affably Evil: She's very polite to Alex and he mentions that, in the absence of any affection from his mother, he looked to Margaret Holloway as a sort of mother figure. She has a kindly, parenting tone of voice when telling Alex the reason he and his parents suck, and holds it for a bit before she loses it. She then tries to murder him.

Hanging Judge: She is the town's judge. Her designated method of murder is through "the noose" as defined by the carvings in the late parts of the game.

Mayor Sam Bartlett

Buried Alive: How he killed his son. It's how his family kills the children for the ritual, always.

Ludicrous Gibs: After Joey returns as Sepulcher, he smashes his father into a bloody smear.

Mayor Pain: Played with. In the past, he was supposedly respectful and friendly, but after killing his son, he's become a bit of both types, as he becomes an alcoholic out of guilt and keeps digging up graves in the cemetery to cope. Also, keep in mind that he's mayor of a city that has a pact with the cult from Silent Hill, so he may have always been Mayor Pain.

Mood-Swinger: Mostly on account of being drunk. He switches between cold, bitter shouting at Alex and solemn, detached mumbling about Joey at the drop of a hat.

Doctor Martin Fitch

Voiced by: David Alan Graf

Creepy Doll: He dotes his daughter and buys her a lot of these. Lampshaded by Alex.

Ironically, she returns as a porcelain doll monster and kills him.

Fallen Hero: Files in the game state that he saved Alex from drowning in a bus accident when he was eight years old.

Irony: His heroism has this, given that Alex was supposed to be sacrificed through drowning by his parents.

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